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The Lower Mainland’s newest online marketplace will open on Monday, April 28, when LikeItBuyItVancouver.com begins previewing a limited-time sale of everything from household goods to consumer electronics to cruises, travel, cars, gift cards and personal services.

Photos: Tensions grow in Ukraine

As the standoff between the Russian military and Ukrainian forces continues in Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, world leaders are pushing for a diplomatic solution to the escalating situation. Crimean citizens will vote in a referendum on March 16 on whether to become part of the Russian federation.

An elderly pro-Russian activist cries as Urkainian riot police officers stand guard in front of the regional state administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on March 5, 2014. The Pro-Russian self-proclaimed governor of the region Paul Gubarev called on “thousands” of pro-Russian supporters to be ready to storm the building again. Meanwhile Russian forces seized partial control of two Ukrainian missile bases in Crimea today as Western and Russian leaders stepped up efforts to defuse the region’s worst crisis since the Cold War.